Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 9 May 2003 13:47:19 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. |
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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:41:13AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > You can have multiple mountspoints with the same path, only > > the topmost one will be seen by userland. > > What keeps users from opening files before the upper layer > filesystems get mounted?
Nothing. Why would we want to do such silly things?
> And how do you handle user-mountable > media like CD-ROMS?
look at supermount for a stackable filesystem that does nothing but dealing with such media :) It also shows how the underlying fs can be mounted without ever exposing it to userspace.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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